] Its not an RSS feed, its a javascript thing you embed in a
] page. Its Bush after all, so it sucks, and is somehow more
] controlling then necessary.

One the one hand, you are right. They want to control the way their message gets presented, and they want to collect statistics. They need to know what geographic areas they are winning and loosing in so they can target their marketing effectively.

On the other hand, I'll bet that if enough bloggers contacted them they would agree to release the content in RSS. They would be stupid to turn down an opportunity to get their message out.

Furthermore, does Howard Dean have RSS?

What I'm most interested in is how this stuff can be used in a non-partisan way. Obviously they are thinking of republicans putting a big ass Bush ticker on the side of their page. Maybe we could build a page with all the major tickers. If it was RSS we could reaggregate election press releases chronologically so you could follow the discourse blow by blow...

I guess there ought to be an elections topic on MemeStreams.

Having said all that, I reamed Howard Dean two days ago. I ought to ream Bush too. On his web page there is a "quiz question" that asks how many American working families are benefitting from Bush's Jobs and Growth Act. Users are asked to choose one of four options from 12 Million to 34 Million.

Seriously, waving around all the good work you've done for the economy is abysmally stupid. You sound like the Iraqi Information Minister. "There is no recession. There are no unemployed people in the city..." Everyone knows someone who is having trouble finding a job. No one is fooled. Saying I already fixed the problem is another way of saying "I don't need to do anything else about it."

I'm not voting for that, either.

RE: George Bush News Feeds, Privacy, and Allegory